Check Your Sources

From the Dark Mansion Tarot, the Page of Swords; from Miss Mai's Victorian Oracle, Planchette:

On the plus side, the Page of Swords is eager to learn and has his ear bent toward any new information around him. On the down side, he's not yet learned how to wisely wield the sharp sword of knowledge that he's collected. His mother will hopefully apprise him of what it takes not only to be intelligent, but also trustworthy: Just because you know something, you don't have to share that information with others unless it helps more than hurts the people involved. The original Planchette was a flat piece of wood equipped with two wheeled casters and a pencil-holding aperture pointing downwards. It was used to facilitate automatic writing by mediums who claimed to be able to communicate with the dead. The device would later be replaced by the pointer used for Ouija boards. It is rather suspect that the intercessors who used them had to be paid a substantial sum of money so spirits could communicate to their family instead of the dead using a more direct method. Which is another lesson for this Page: sometimes people feed us misinformation or nonsense for their own gain. 

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. ~Jimmy Wales